Vintage L-2000 Question

Johnny Alien · #1 03-24-2009, 05:14 PM

Did they really make L-2000's with teh pickup spacing seen in the ad linked below? I am not sure I ever saw one like that but I would love to have one. If they did was it for 1980 or any other year?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1980-G-L-L-1000-...3286.m20.l1116

Ken Baker · #2 03-24-2009, 05:26 PM

I've neither seen nor heard about one like that. Based on the year, it might be a prototype L-2000 that never saw production. CLF/MM was ending, so something with StingRay spacing (which is what it looks like) isn't too big a stretch.

Ken...

Johnny Alien · #3 03-24-2009, 05:28 PM

I want one!

sunbeast · #4 03-24-2009, 07:23 PM

Yeah- looks like the middle-ground between the L2000 and the MM Sabre...

Karl

**Chef** · #5 03-24-2009, 09:20 PM

I've never seen one like that, but I'd like one please

Ken Baker · #6 03-24-2009, 10:15 PM

Y'all could have one. It just wouldn't be a G&L.

Ken...

Templar · #7 03-24-2009, 10:28 PM

That pic is kinda fuzzy....cant make out the control plate. I wonder if that's the passive L-2000?

My memory is even fuzzier, so I don't recall the pup placement, but I saw/played a passive 2K when G&L first hit the stores. Unimpressed with it, I went with the awesome 1000 instead.

spideyjg · #8 03-24-2009, 10:30 PM

You would need to get an L-1500 and mod it.

I have never seen one of those but I have heard 3 firsthand accounts of them. The great white buffalo of G&L basses.

GGJaguar · #9 03-25-2009, 07:51 AM

Yes, that is the passive L-2000. Some were made before they were yanked from the price list, but none have turned up in nearly 20 years of looking.

GG

metron · #10 03-25-2009, 12:53 PM

Woa the passive L2000?! Can someone upload a picture to TB? I really want to see it but my work internet filter blocks ebay.